Institut Henri Poincaré

The Henri Poincaré Institute (or IHP for Institut Henri Poincaré) is a mathematics research institute part of UPMC Sorbonne Universités, in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). It is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on the Sainte-Geneviève Hill, close to a number of other higher education institutions.

Just after World War I, mathematicians Émile Borel in France and George Birkhoff in the United States persuaded American and French sponsors (Edmond de Rothschild and the Rockefeller Foundation respectively) to fund the building of a centre for lectures and international exchanges in mathematics and theoretical physics. The Institute was inaugurated on 17 November 1928 and named after French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854-1912).

Right from the start, the institute's objective has been to promote mathematical physics, and it soon became a favourite meeting place for the French scientific community. In the 1990s, the IHP became a thematic institute modeled on Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and a place for contact making, exchange and diffusion of knowledge.

The IHP's governing board has about 25 members. There are no permanent researchers other than the director and the deputy director. Since 2009, the institute has been headed by mathematician Cédric Villani (director), Fields Medals laureate in 2010. The current deputy director is the French cosmologist Jean-Philippe Uzan.

Together with the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) and the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA) it is a member of the Carmin LabEx (Laboratory of Excellence), which aims at facilitating exchanges between mathematicians by building infrastructures for pooling skills and information.

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